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School Tv: The News Show Pledge
How to spice up the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of your newscast. SchoolTV gives an in depth look at ways to give the Pledge more meaning visually.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your students using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
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Vanderbilt University: Television News Archive
This archive from Vanderbilt University contains an "extensive and complete" collection of television news broadcasts. "The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national...
CNN
Cnn: You Be the Producer
This is a great learning tool for producing and writing for television news. You have the opportuntity to judge stories and see if they would make it to the newscast.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: This Is an Antimagnet
From ABC News in Science, Julie Steenhuysen's article covers research into antiferromagnets (or antimagnets) and their "external magnetic field."
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Marching Ants Fix Their Own Roads
From ABC News in Science, this article explores interesting behavior found in army ants. The behavior charts ants who, upon discovering pot holes or holes in the paths, use their own bodies to cover the holes for the rest of the group.
BBC
Bbc News: Ronald Reagan 1911 2004
At this site from BBC News, you can explore the death of an American president through the eyes of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). This site offers the reader extensive information about former president Ronald Reagan including...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Global Warming Won't Halt Ocean Current
From ABC News in Science, Larry O'Hanlon's article discusses climate change in the face of several climate models and poses both the good and the bad news associated with global warming.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Crabs Change Color
From ABC News in Science, Stephen Pincock's article, "Crabs change color to escape hungry birds," focuses on research conducted on tiny fiddler crabs and their defense mechanisms.
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Sports News You Can Use: Moving From Competition to Sportscasting
This article gives a list of strategies for moving form the field of competition to a career in sportscasting.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Emu Chicks Emerge
Discover something new about this unique animal! Site highlights the birth of some emerging emu chicks.
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Dallas Cowboys Official Site
Page offers news, team info, broadcast info, and pictures of the famous Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.